On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Isaac Devine wrote:
What has happened to clug?
Where is all the nitty-gritty tech debate? (the hard stuff)
Blame Ubuntu.
I gave a course on Linux here at work the other day.
I asked for hard practical real life problems to solve.
Some asked, "How do you Dual Boot between Windows and Linux?"
"Ah! Good!" I said. Mentally loading up descriptions of lilo and grub.
Of boot sectors and boot loaders. I made a note to download and print a
few copies of the "Dual boot HOWTO" and the "Lilo HOWTO" and....
Well actually the answer is...
1) Install Windows.
2) Defrag harddrive (even if it says you don't need to)
3) Install Ubuntu.
That simple.
Bugger.
That's where all the nitty-gritty tech debate has gone.
Down the Gurgler of User friendliness.
Remember how all this Linux Stuff started...
Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and
wrote their own device drivers? Are you without a nice project and just
dying to cut your teeth on a OS you can try to modify for your needs?
Are you finding it frustrating when everything works on minix? No more
all-nighters to get a nifty program working?
So here is your next project....
Work out how to reprogram your USB Pen drive!
Shouldn't be hard, it must be a little CPU in there with a bit of RAM, a
USB port and a ton of flash.
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